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The Evolution of the Butterfly



Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent economic collapse and gives a backdrop of hope to sometimes bleak reality.

For more information on the caterpillar and butterfly, humanity and society, see Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future And A Way To Get There From Here.

After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, Occupier Tries to Reason With Police

This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & Jamie Reid


Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

The JOBS Act Is A Fraud-Enhancing Gift To Wall Street Criminals

By William K. Black, Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis, Janet Tavakoli, Barry Ritholtz & Lynn A. Stout
As white-collar criminologists (and a former financial regulator and enforcement head) and experts in ferreting out sophisticated financial frauds, our careers and research focus on financial fraud by the world’s most elite private sector criminals and their political cronies. Therefore, we write to thank Congress and the President for preparing to adopt a JOBS Act that will provide us with job security for life.

Cenk: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren’t The Violent Ones – The Police Are

Cenk: “No cops ever get punished, no mayors ever get punished. If you go out there to exercise your First Amendment rights, should you expect an ass-kicking by your own police that you paid for?”

OWS Re-Occupation Arrests: Protester Has Seizure in Handcuffs

DeGraw & Papantonio: The 99% Movement, Anonymous & Get Money Out (Ring of Fire Radio)

Is Occupy Wall Street the offline version of Anonymous?

$h!t Lobbyists $ay

Lobbyists write legislation, they take your representatives out to lunch, they throw fundraisers, they abide by absurdly specific rules to avoid appearance of graft and bribery, but nonetheless, Lobbyists influence your government for the benefit of corporate interests.

Ben Harper and Tom Morello: There’s A Better Way

Performed live at an InterOccupy meetup hosted by Occupy LA in MacArthur Park:

Greedy Bastards Antidote: Lawrence Lessig on “One Way Forward”

In a discussion on money, politics, and the growth of organic political reform movements in America over the last few years, Dylan Ratigan talks with Lawrence Lessig about his new book, One Way Forward: An Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic.


You can read Lessig's book here.

Obama’s Lobbying Ban Leads To More Corruption

When Republic Report launched Sell Out Of The Week, our initial winner was President Obama, who earned the prize for embracing his super PAC, essentially endorsing unlimited corporate cash invading the democratic process, after having failed to take some critical steps to clean up the system. We’ve chosen him again this week, but for a different money in politics offense.

Obama campaigned on a promise of reform and transparency, pledging as a candidate that lobbyists “will not run my White House… and will not drown out the voices of the American people.” But three years into his presidency, Obama’s lobby reform is broken. The rules once seen as revolutionary are counterproductive, meaningless, and frankly ridiculous.

This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Criminalizing First Amendment Rights


If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been silenced by police in riot gear.

Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; Occupy News Roundup; American Police State; Move To Amend

Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend

Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains; Robber Barons Continue to Rake in Billions; Market Recovery Is Illusion


Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains | Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions | SEC Dropped the Ball on $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme | Goldman's Massive Conflicts of Interest | Gaming the Greek bailout | Market Recovery Is an Illusion | BP to Pay $7.8 Billion | Legality of Targeted Killings of US Citizens Overseas

#GetMoneyOut News Roundup: Abolish Corporate Personhood; It’s Not Just Citizens United; Super Tuesday’s Big Winner; Will Lawmakers Return Stolen Money?

Voters Back Grassroots Campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood | It’s Not Just Citizens United | FEC’s bad rap getting worse | Super Tuesday’s winner: Big-money politics | Most Former Members Of Congress Work In Lobbying | Stanford's been convicted, will lawmakers return stolen money? | Super PAC aims to wrest grip of incumbents

LulzSec Cyber Activists Arrested With Help of Hacking Group’s Former Leader – Is Julian Assange Next? (Full Indictments)


Full LulzSec Indictments Here

Wall Street Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment From Washington

What’s worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so? The Obama administration has set a record by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, the government has often left whistleblowers feeling isolated and discouraged.

Mic Check! The People Speak – Part 1: Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp

Editor's Note: The following is the first of a new seven-part series featuring statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99% Movement. The statements are excerpted from the new book, "The Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action." In this installment, we feature comments from Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp.

Hot List: Wall Street Plunder Continues, Extreme Weather Hits US & War With Iran

AIG Still Robbing US Taxpayers; Fed Lets Banks Pay Shareholders Billions; Costs of Extreme Weather; War with Iran; Global Insurrection Roundup; Occupy the SEC; Occupy Food Justice; More

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Fraudclosure Watch: Firefighter to Demolish Home Before Bank of America Forecloses After Deceptive Scheme

July 2nd, 2011 | Filed under Activism, Economy, Feature, Hot List, News . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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Fraudclosure Watch: Firefighter to Demolish Home Before Bank of America Forecloses After Deceptive SchemeEntire Cobb Mtn. Estate to be demolished by couple with dueling dozers rather than allow Bank of America to auction it off in the fraudulent foreclosure Ponzi scheme, bogus modification scam now sweeping our nation! An estimated 15 Million homes/families’ lives hang in the balance! We’re all in this together – How are you fighting back?

This was originally posted and flagged down within an hour the first time I posted two nights ago on Craigslist under: real estate and in just 18 minutes the second time I posted it under: free stuff. Please leave this up as it a serious commentary about the very real, current state of our nation!

Fraudclosure Watch: Firefighter to Demolish Home Before Bank of America Forecloses After Deceptive SchemeHello readers, we are Ana & Robert Somerton from Cobb, CA. We recently received from Bank of America a “NOTICE OF INTENT TO ACCELERATE” and “Options to Avoid Foreclosure”. We’ve been advised by our legal representative that we’re out of legal options/remedies to Bank of America selling at auction our beautiful hand built home of 15 years. Won’t go into great depth or detail here, suffice to say we’ve been run through the Bank of America Hope/Harp/Hamp wringer and hung out to dry. If you’ve been through this, you already know what it means, if not, do us all a favor and educate yourself before responding to this, thanks.

So unless some kind sole comes up with the 24k we are now behind on our mortgage payments, we will most certainly, within the next few months lose our home to the Banksters of America. We have decided that when/if it comes to that we’ll offer our home (BofA once appraised at $350k, Zillow now shows at $133k!) and anything, anyone cares to remove from it, including some very nice expensive Pella doors/windows, kitchen and bath fixtures, appliances and all it’s contents to anyone who can use them.

We’ve also decided that rather than allow BofA the satisfaction of selling/taking our home intact, once everything of value is stripped from it, with DUELING DOZERS my wife an I will take it down to the concrete slab my father built it on back in the early 1990s. Leaving nothing but a smoldering pile of debris in the driveway for BofA to attempt to sell, like an episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition with no plan to rebuild!

Wish us luck, once it’s done look for the full demolition video under the heading “CA homeowners respond to fraudulent Bank of America foreclosure with Dueling Dozers”. We plan on shooting it from at least three fixed angles with additional cams mounted inside each DOZER for full effect.

Any media outlets interested in an interview prior to and/or covering the day of the demolition can contact us directly. Ana & Robert Somerton 707-245-7541

Anyone who’d like to drive-by, meet the owners, view the home/contents prior to the demolition, our address is: 11784 Gifford Springs Rd. Cobb, CA 95426

This is not a short sale, as we’ll not do Bank of America that favor, also we have no interest in a Deed in Lieu or the few thousand dollars they’d like to give us for the keys to the only home we’ve ever known/owned!

We are extremely hostile to any “BofA tools” trespassing on our property as long as we still own it, violators will be dealt with accordingly!

Editor’s Note: Good luck to the Somerton family! We will report on this story as it develops. To follow this story and many other fraudclosure news reports, here is our new Fraudclosure Watch news wire:

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  1. Mike said:

    Ana & Robert Somerton are American Heroes!

    The Banksters have gotten away with robbing millions of Americans of their homes. Enough is enough!

    Fight back by any means necessary!

    MW

  2. Bob said:

    In February 2011 BofA finalized a Refi of our 1st mortgage that they started with no request from us. We did not have to provide proof of income or the value of the home. It is a special plan Fannie Mae has, who actually held our mortgage. They financed the closing costs as well which were under $2k and no points. They converted the option arm at 7.25% to a fixed 30 year loan at 4.87% . We had been turned down 5 time previously trying to refi. The local Santa Rosa BofA home loan branch knows about this.

  3. John R. said:

    First, BOA is gonna love you! Cause you’re giving them the ammunition they need to collect the entire amount owed on the loan… from the insurance they’ve already placed on it! you doze… they win! This isn’t a new thing, this is an old thing they’ve been up against before, they know how to profit.

    Don’t burn it down! That’s arson and up to a 25 year penalty in the slammer… it ain’t worth that!

    Also, now that you;ve advertiwed the fact that you’re going to commit a crime… ruining the collateral on a loan… you might want to rethink this entire ordeal!

    might I suggest something a little more subtle… like maybe.. finding and bringing in an entire swarm of termites? Or… leaving the plavce just a wonderful habitat for a tribe of skunks? Or… if a house has had a meth lab in it I hear they have to tear out all the walls.. of course you’d have to do the meth lab thing and that could get messy… Does the neighborhood need a place for a bunch of ferril cats to live?

    The point is to be creative AND stay out of jail for what is essentially an illegal action.

    And FIGHT ON! Take it to court.. take it to the Appellate Court… take it to your Supreme Court… Fight On! If absolutely nothing else… they gotta pay those lawyers and since your credit is trashed already, you are actually in the strongest possible position you can be in… BROKE! Good Luck!

  4. Julie said:

    I’ve been a victim of Bank of America’s Fraudulaunt Hope For Homeowner’s program. They scammed me as well, they scheduled my home for foreclosure sale while I was being told not to worry about it, that as long as I was in the modification process then the sale would be cancelled. A dear loved one couldn’t bear to see me loose everything that I had worked so hard for and lent me the rest of the money that I needed to reinstate my loan. I was told by BoA that all was good, I was current, and all foreclosure and collection processes would cease. But they didn’t… They sold my house to themselves at Auction! I feel your pain. But you must know that if someone bails you out and gives you the cash. It most likely won’t stop Bank of America from selling your home. As it didn’t for me.

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